A few months later, during a flight from Berlin back to Malta, I found myself trying to sleep as passengers left the plane during a stopover in Hamburg. I sipped a carton of orange juice, with my head resting against the window, watching the baggage for the people stopping in Hamburg being quickly hauled out of the plane. One of the suitcases was a bright lime green. I blinked.

There was never a happier passenger claiming at 'lost luggage' at the MIA. The adventures of my bright green luggage concluded when it arrived on an LH flight, about five hours later.

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I thought MY luggage was cool until I came across Peter Yeadon's FIDO luggage. Dragging around your personal belongings at the airport needn't be a drag any more! "Fido Luggage appears, at first glance, to be remarkable only because of its colorful exterior and blob-like shape. But then you might notice it has a tail. And that it moves on its own, heels beside its owner, and changes direction on command. The owner wears a wristband, which holds an on-off switch for activating Fido, and a receiver for programming voice recognition. And in ways that only a robot can be superior to a dog, even when Fido gets old, you can still retrain it to respond to new commands.